Some error occured while loading the Quick View. Please close the Quick View and try reloading the page.
Politics and the Pink Tide investigates the ways in which protest varied across five Latin American countries that elected leftist presidents during the Pink Tide.
Kathleen Bruhn compares the differences in protest that occurred under the new leftist governments to their conservative, neoliberal predecessors, offering a wide-angle view into the complex relationships between neoliberalism, political party structures, and protest.
Using individual and event-level data from Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Venezuela, and Ecuador, Politics and the Pink Tide shows how economic policy choices and the links between leftist parties and social movements affect patterns of protest. For example, although more orthodox neoliberal approaches did motivate more economic protest, the book demonstrates that neither more radical nor more socially linked leftist governments were better able to contain protest—or to do so without resorting to police violence. Politics and the Pink Tide proposes a sweeping exploration of protest, one that is controlled by economic policy and grievances, the social embeddedness of political parties, and the norms surrounding protest tactics within public life.
“Politics and the Pink Tide is well thought out, structured, and written.”—Margarita López-Maya, author of Democracia para Venezuela
“A very important contribution to Latin American studies, to comparative politics, and to social movement theories, both theoretically and empirically. The argument developed throughout the book is particularly relevant to understanding this period of Latin American politics.” —Françoise Montambeault, co-editor of Legacies of the Left Turn in Latin America
"Navigating the gulf between radical left and moderate left governments in Latin America, Bruhn provides a well-written, complete account. In synthesis, its overarching model convincingly shows that—contrary to conventional wisdom—anti-neoliberalism did not constitute a major protest driver and that political parties have maintained a fundamental role in mobilizing people, and can actually deploy protests to recover some lost credibility across the electorate. This leaves little room for other factors to emerge as prominent at the individual level because hurdles to political activity are often too high to overcome without a little help." —Latin American Politics and Society
"Bruhn finds that deeply embedded parties do not necessarily perform better in managing protests. Indeed, taking the long view, Pink Tide parties that first gained traction in part through protest politics often went on to lose momentum or fracture under the pressure of subsequent protest experiences. —Perspectives on Politics
Kathleen Bruhn is a professor in and the chair of the Department of Political Science at University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Urban Protest in Mexico and Brazil.
List of Tables and Figures
Introduction: Protest in the Pink Tide
1. Markets and Protest Potential
2. The Ties that Bind: Parties, Representation and Protest
3. Sticks and Stones: Tactical Choices and the Risks of Repression
4. A Crisis of Representation? The Individual Correlates of Protest
5. Flashpoints: Managing Major Episodes of Protest
6. An Interactive Model of Protest
Bibliography